Capturing the Voices of RandolphMacon College: Oral Histories Virginia Library Association Williamsb

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Capturing the Voices of Randolph-Macon
CollegeOral HistoriesVirginia Library
AssociationWilliamsburg, VAOctober 23, 2008
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Voices from AbroadJennifer ShotwellMacon
MemoriesLynda WrightLiving LegaciesLaurie
PrestonOne Ashland, Many VoicesKimberly Dutton
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Sharing Study Abroad with the world
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Andrew Cantone
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Andrew Cantone
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Petrine Knight
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Living Legacies
Honors donors and contributors, with a particular
focus on alumni who have created
scholarships Records the student experience at
R-MC
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Living Legacies

• Mary Aleta Pannill,
• Wife of
• Dr. Burnell Pannill,
• Dean of Students

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Living Legacies
John Vaughan, Class of 1966
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One Ashland, Many Voices

• Randolph-Macon College Student Involvement

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One Ashland, Many Voices
Carlene Bass
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One Ashland, Many Voices
Woody and Susan Tucker
The Messy Mile
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Audio vs. Video

• file size issue
• professional results
• comfort level of interviewees

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Interview Techniques

• monologue vs. dialogue
• targeted vs. open-ended questions

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Background Research

• Filling the generational gap
• Finding Resources
• Application of research in the oral history
  interview

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Administrative and Legal Issues

• Release forms for recording and photographs
• Including all formats, current or future
• Master administrative files
• Release forms, biographical information,
  interview details
• One for each interviewee

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Equipment and Space

• Equipment
• Goal is to preserve the content
• Rented kit from StoryCorps later purchased
• Recommendations from Oral History Association
• Space
• Recording studio
• Interviews on the road
• Interviews via Audacity

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• Audacity
• Free, open-source software for recording and
  editing sound
• http// audacity.sourceforge.net

• Adobe Audition 3
• Record, mix, edit, and master software, 349
  retail or 149 educational
• http//www.adobe.com/
• products/audition/

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Processing and Preservation

• File formats (MP3, WAV, WMA, etc.)
• Editing issues
• Sound quality editing only never edit for
  content
• Preservation considerations
• Archival copies off-site storage
• listening copies storage on servers

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Transcriptions

• How transcriptions define oral history.
• Only format which will not become obsolete
• Methods, Techniques, and General Facts
• Downfalls

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Student Transcriptions

• harrious trueman Harry S Truman
• Depaknes Shipyard Newport News Shipyard
• waffle college Wofford College

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Discovery and Access

• Library model single record for single item
• Archives model collection level description
• Internet model
• Various data formats
• Sound, text, image, etc.
• Many different metadata schema
• Dublin Core (Simple and Qualified)
• EAD (Encoded Archival Description)

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Cataloging Issues

• Goals
• Controlled vocabularies
• LCSH
• Local standardized list for proper names
• Multiple formats
• Share your data

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• Just do it!
• Youll be glad you did!